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I am tired
I am tired.
I am tired of all the meetings, commissions, focus groups, committees and boards whose only purpose is to have discussions and create reports about the achievement gap in this community but never put any of those words into action.
I am tired of politicians who show up for events and stay for ten minutes before leaving. They grandstand and make negative comments about what's being said.
Or the ones who think they know all the answers, so they proceed to dictate to the parents whose children are on the wrong side of the achievement gap what they need to do without seeking input from those families.
I am tired of the bloggers and the education know-it-alls who criticize anyone who might have a different opinion about how to address this issue. They point fingers and concoct conspiracy theories, but they won't lift a finger to work with the kids in peril.
I am tired of superintendents, union leaders and school board members who talk to hear themselves but won't listen because of their "we know what's best for you" attitude. They pontificate about what the problem is but barely take any action to deal with it, and they won't think outside the box or create innovative ways to deal with the achievement gap.
I'm tired of the so-called leaders in this community whose egos make it difficult to work with. They speak to people in a way that's demeaning and insulting. It doesn't matter if you're right – it's how you handle being right. If you're rude to people they won't listen – no matter how right you might be.
I'm tired of the parents who don't prepare their children for school. They don't teach them how to behave in class, and they aren't invested in their children's educational growth. Yet they never hesitate to blame the teachers or the schools when their child falls behind or worse.
I'm tired of not being able to have an open and honest conversation about the achievement gap in this community without someone calling you a teacher basher, union hater, bigot or racist. It's petty and juvenile, and it needs to stop. Grow up.
I'm tired of the reporters in this city who are supposed to write stories in a balanced manner, but instead choose to go the salacious and confrontational route. They create more division. Whatever happened to unbiased reporting?
I'm tired of hearing people tell me the achievement gap exists in places all over the country. So what? That doesn't mean there aren't places that haven't addressed it successfully, or that Madison couldn't be one of them. With all the smart people and resources we have here, there's no reason we can't wrap our arms around this issue.
I'm tired of hearing that teachers and schools aren't doing anything to address this issue. It's not true. There are teachers and principals in the Madison Metropolitan School District who are innovative and who care about all of their students regardless of race, background or special needs.
These are the people we should be hearing from, and whose ideas we should be implementing.
I'm tired of people who either pay little attention to the achievement gap or ignore it altogether, because it's "not their kid." The achievement gap issue affects all of us. Ask yourself "what if this was my child?" We need to admit to ourselves that if these were white kids instead of black and brown in this situation, this community would be having a much different conversation. There would be no stone left unturned for creative ideas and initiatives to fix this problem.
And finally, I'm tired of hearing from adults. They have done nothing but make the problem worse. Let's hear from the kids for a change. We would probably learn something, if we'd only listen.

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Today's game
Today's lineup features four shortstops on the infield. Nomar Garciaparra (1,024 games), Ramon Martinez (249), Rafael Furcal (846) and Cesar Izturis (559) have played a combined total of 2,678 games at shortstop during their careers entering today's game. For good measure, the starting catcher Russell Martin is a converted third baseman.
Happy Birthday goes out to Aaron Sele, who celebrated last night with a victory.
Furcal, SS
Lofton, CF
Nomar, 1B
Drew, RF
Ethier, LF
Martinez, 2B
Izturis, 3B
Martin, C
Penny, P
If we can get out of here with a sweep, it will be nice, given our recent track record on the road in AL cities. Check out Tony Jackson's Daily News blog for more on that.
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Josh, we have just added searchability by team for MLBlogs, so anyone can easily see active Dodger MLBlogs including this one…and hopefully other fans in your audience here will want to start one of their own!
Derrek Lee just returned to the lineup today. My guess is that Furcal will at least be booed loudly when the Dodgers go to Chicago.
Looking for a good outing from Penney. Run production from the middle of the lineup. but most of all a S-W-E-E-P
the perez release watch is still on, and i hope it ends soon, as for something important, how is andy laroche, is he gonna have surgery?… and how bout my kids… they are simply amazing!
cant wait to see if ethier and martin can keep up with there hot bats. Go Dodgers!!!!!!
It's great have Izzy back, I hope he's not trade bait, we have room for him (3B or Furcal at 3B), and the opportunity for an excellent defensive infield. I'm for the release as well.
can you say S-W-E-E-P!!!!
Congratulations to Nomar on hitting the 200th Home Run of his career in the 7th Inning!
Way to go!
great win today. great sweep and back in first again!
nice to see izzy getting more comfortable at the plate, though his swing is still aways away. thought he should have been more patient at the plate with bases loaded.
there was talk of trade rumors where the white sox would want aaron rowand back from the phils for starting pitcher, garland. they want/need a center fielder. how about we send them cruz, or lofton or one of the kids for garland?
Great game today. It was fun seeing TWO milestones. First, Rafael's 1,000th base hit and Nomar's 200th home run. Here's to many more!
On a slightly different note… Does anybody know why CPK put American Cheese on their Pizza's today? Both mine and my friend's had it and they tasted so weird!
All around great game today !! Izzy was a human vacumm out there, the Kids all did well as did Furcal and of course Nomar !! The bullpen was great, I just hope they can keep it up on the road.
On a personal note, we were sitting near and noticed Mia Hamm today signing autographs so my daughter went a couple of times to see if she could get her to sign her ticket. Twice she was turned away by the isle attendent and told to wait for after the game, which we completely understood and respected. After the game my 11 yr old waited respectfully a couple of rows away and when she approached she was ignored, so my oldest daughter spoke up and aked if she could sign and she took issue with my girls. She gave the autograph, but wasn't very happy about doing it. Looking back I had wished we didn't ask, it wasn't worth the moment in time. I wish them the very best and hope that this was just a moment to forget.
Keep the streak going guys !!
Go Dodgers !!!
I don't think the Sox will take Cruz or Lofton for Garland. Maybe along with a couple of prospects. It seems too soon to sell off the future. I expect GM Colletti to continue to protect the young guys and come up with a fairly good pitcher without giving up too much of the youth movement. We hope to make the play-offs but realistically speaking we are looking at a longer term progression built on the young guys and bringing in some essential parts. I think everyone, management, players, fans will be patient and satisfied as long as there is progression. Everyone loves to see the kids mature into real Dodgers.
Grady gets a DH again, and you know he's thrilled. Ethier will probably get the nod against Liriano, and if he can hit him, Grady will try him against Santana. If Nomar needs a day off, then Saenz moves to first and Drew DH's. Izzy at the bottom for that "surprise!" factor.
Predicted lineup (mon/tues/wed):
Lofton/Izzy/(Ethier or Cruz)
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Nice sweep against a team we r supposed to beat down. Let's keep it rolling into Minnesota, Mon. is important because after that we face Liriano and Johan. We have hit lefties well all year(aside from Zito,hopefully that whole series was an aberration), and I think we got a surprise for the Twins. Hopefully Chad can keep that pitch count down, would like to see him go a bit deeper into the game. Olmedo should be a big factor this series, he pounds lefties. Battle of the two top hitters in MLB, Nomar and Mauer, I'll take a healthy Nomar anytime. Go Dodgers!!
I might be willing to give ledee for garland but his era is high and his SO/W ratio is only 2:1 not to mention he has givin up 19 HR's and a 7 mil contract.Its hard to Fix a problem with a maybe I'd leave well enough alone in that trade.Gotta have someone who can get an era under 4 with 3:1 SO/W ratio and be consistent with the ball in the park if we are gonna move people around and are gonna carry a med to large size contract for a bargain Rookie that is producing.
I think that we can afford one of our good AAA Kids and a Maybe AA with Money for a Lights out Top notch pitcher Who is Producing if we can make sure we can retain said pitcher for a few years. That I think could make us contenders for a couple years most of the puzzle is complete 1 kick butt pitcher could complete it. S W E E P Go Blue!!!!
Odalis for Lima
Ok Trade freaks I did my Homework tonight and this is the list of pitchers I'd like from teams whom are not looking to be contenders.#1 Josh Johnson Fla marlins 6-2 as a starter 6-4 overall 327K/Year rookie .215 baa 2 hr. Mil Brewers Chris capuano Lefty 450K/yr 8-4 3.33era 23/101 W to K .249 baa
Also from The fish is Carlos Zambrano 11 hr 60/104 W/K 6.5 mil 6/3W/L.191 baa. 6.5 mil and lastly CC sabathia Cle Ind 7.25 mil 5-4 7 hr .247 baa 20/64 W/K but was shelled in his last outing againgst the cubs for 9 runs in 2.1 inns.Top Trades i'd give 2 prospects from Vegas and Jack and a Crappy "P" or "S" pitcher plus money for last 2 I'd trade a prospect and workout the details for but I would not Give it away the way The past has done. But it needs to be done somehow someway and I'm not on the payroll so it ain't my job. GOOO BLUE Make it 5/6/7/Sweep So Sweet!
Hey Patriot did ya know that Lima caught cooties last year?
listen, we shouldnt trade any of our guys in the farm. I'd rather not make the playoffs this year to keep that core group of young players that will take us to the playoffs for 5-6 years. Trade odalis, ledee, werth, and/or money for a SP. IF you cant trade odalis, work with him to get the best we can. Lets be honest, no one is going to take him. We shouldnt trade the following: billingsly, broxton, kemp, ethier, martin, loney, la roche, guzman, aybar, martinez. There are more, but you get my drift – we cant afford to give up our young talent.
Its not like our starting rotation is THAT bad, we lead the NL in ERA. But I understand where everyone is coming from.
I don't see the point in trading for Garland. We already have guys with numbers like that.
I want to agree with firstname.lastname@example.com but it isn't reasonable. Whether we trade now or in the off season we're going to lose someone we value. The question is who and is it worth it ?? We have to remember these veterns are all on short term contracts and could be gone tomorrow. Nomar is only committed to this year !!! I would lean toward a long term fix rather then a short term fix. I don't think a reclamation project is worth the cost to the farm system. I'd rather miss the playoffs this year and work on the long term !! If you can get a Maddux or some vetern without losing a kid then of course we should do it. But the demand for pitching is at an all time high and the teams willing to let loose of someone still want too much !! And the teams in need like the Yankee's are willing to pay the world for anything. I think fisher is right on with his inventory and we have to try, but at the end of the day it's looking like we're going to have to work with what we got. So get to work Honeycut and fix Perez and Seo, it's all in our best interest !!
Keep the Streak Going !!
Go Dodgers !!!


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A look back at some interesting medical history!
By Liz Kowalczyk David L. Ryan/Globe staff
Dr. Ernest Amory Codman told his wife before he died in 1940 not to spend money on a headstone. Dr. Andrew Warshaw spent the last two years raising $20,000 from medical organizations for a granite and bronze memorial that will be dedicated Tuesday.
Dr. Ernest Amory Codman was in his mid-40s when his golden career as a sought-after Harvard surgeon began to unravel. He had quit in exasperation from Massachusetts General Hospital, and when he took his dispute with hospital leaders public, colleagues turned against him. Many stopped sending him patients.
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Dr. Ernest Amory Codman.
It was the early 1900s, and Codman was impatiently pushing hospitals and doctors to adopt a practice many considered heretical at the time: Record the "end results'' for every patient — including harm caused by physicians' errors — and make them public.
A century later, many of Codman's ideas are the bedrock of modern medicine. And a group of doctors, including a former Mass. General surgery chief, plans to make sure he gets the wider appreciation he deserves this week.
Codman's ashes are buried in his wife's family plot in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, with no personal marker. Dr. Andrew Warshaw, the hospital's chief of surgery from 1997 to 2011, has spent the last two years raising $20,000 from medical organizations for a granite and bronze memorial that will be dedicated Tuesday.
The headstone is "an overdue homage" to Codman and the ideas he pushed at Mass. General and nationally, Warshaw said. "His senior doctors couldn't be bothered. They said it wasn't necessary. Of course, people were threatened."
Even after Mass. General began tracking some outcomes, making that information public was anathema. "The general executive committee does not consider it advisable,'' Dr. Joseph Howland, the hospital's assistant administrator, cryptically wrote Codman in April 1914.
Codman himself lived his beliefs with excruciating honesty.
"I made an error of skill of the most gross character and even failed to recognize that I had made it,'' he wrote in a published report after a woman died following a gallbladder operation in 1917.
These days, there is little escaping Codman's notions, as everyone from patient safety groups to President Obama pushes for measurable quality and transparency in medical care.
Codman's close examination of patient cases led to weekly meetings now held at Mass. General and many other hospitals called "morbidity and mortality'' conferences, and his insistence on "hospital standards'' eventually prompted the formation in 1951 of the Joint Commission, a national organization that evaluates hospitals.
"He deserves to be much better recognized,'' said Dr. William Mallon, a shoulder surgeon who wrote a comprehensive biography of Codman that was published in 1999.
But it was not until another Harvard physician, Dr. Lucian Leape, started publishing studies on the frequency of medical errors in the 1990s that the profession and government began to intently examine the issue.
And it has been only in the past 10 years that regulators, patient safety experts, and some doctors have advocated for making outcomes and errors public, as a way to further encourage improvement. As Mallon pointed out, however, few physicians are as open as Codman about their mistakes, in part because of the threat of lawsuits, and mortality and morbidity conferences remain highly confidential.
Dr. Lamar McGinnis, a cancer surgeon from Georgia who has researched Codman's career, said it was not only his ideas, but his abrasive personality that hurt him professionally. "He was really stepping on toes," McGinnis said.
Frustrated with Mass. General's refusal to fully embrace his ideas, Codman left his full-time job there in 1911 to start his own 12-bed hospital in a Beacon Hill brownstone. He required his doctors to report their results and he tracked his own patients on hundreds of 3 x 5 cards. He advertised the "Medical Ethics of the Codman Hospital'' — a mission statement of sorts that stated "large fees are only justifiable'' when a surgeon's skills have been proven.
Codman continued to pursue changes at Mass. General, and while the hospital began to track patient outcomes, it stopped short of investigating the reasons for poor results, according to letters Codman wrote to hospital administrators. He warned that his ideas were gaining traction in Philadelphia, threatening Mass. General's position as a national leader.
"It is really easier to overturn a whole city than it is to wake up the trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital,'' he said in a letter in March 1914, the month he cut ties completely with the hospital to protest the seniority system. Codman urged Mass. General to "do some house-cleaning'' and stop promoting doctors because of their reputations instead of advancing those with good results.
Codman's surgical career took a dive in January 1915, when he organized a meeting on hospital standards as chairman of the Suffolk District Surgical Society. Before dozens of colleagues, Codman unveiled a cartoon he had asked a friend to draw.
An ostrich with its head buried in the sand kicked out golden eggs to Back Bay doctors. The heads of Mass. General watched, scratching their heads and asking, "If we let her know the truth about our patients, do you suppose she would still be willing to lay?"
The audience was aghast, Codman later wrote. He was told to resign as chairman of the group, and as referrals plummeted that year, so did his income — to $5,000 from $8,000 the prior year. He closed his hospital to help treat the injured after two army munitions ships collided and exploded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in December 1917.
Massachusetts General Hospital archives
Dr. Ernest Amory Codman shocked colleagues with a cartoon critical of Back Bay doctors.
Still, Codman was hard to ignore back in Boston. He became an expert in shoulder surgery and bone sarcoma, and Mass. General reinstated him as a consultant in 1929. By the time he died in 1940 at his home in Ponkapoag, now Canton, the wounds appeared healed.
Two weeks after his death, trustees at Mass. General, which had begun to adopt his ideas, passed a resolution calling him a "champion of truth'' who was "willing to sacrifice personal place and standing to achieve what he believed to be right.''
Codman never recovered financially after his surgery practice dwindled, according to his biographer, and he told his wife before he died of melanoma in 1940 not to spend money on a headstone.
The memorial project took far longer than Warshaw expected.
Codman and his wife, Katherine Putnam Bowditch, did not have children, and doctors were unable to find a relative to give permission for the headstone. So Warshaw contacted Mount Auburn, which began researching the expansive cemetery plot, purchased by the prominent Bowditch family in 1845. Nathaniel Bowditch, Katherine's great-grandfather and a ship's captain from Salem, was a pioneer of modern maritime navigation.
Mount Auburn determined that it controlled a portion of the plot, and gave Warshaw permission to move forward with a memorial. Warshaw, who will become president of the American College of Surgeons in October, plans to make Codman's accomplishments the theme of his opening speech in San Francisco.
A small private ceremony will be held at his gravesite on Tuesday. The memorial, which describes Codman as the "father of outcomes assessment and quality measurement in health care,'' sits under a shady stand of eight Canadian hemlocks, just behind Nathaniel Bowditch's grave.
Inscribed under Codman's name and portrait in bronze are these words: "It may take a hundred years for my ideas to be accepted.''
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The terms transformation and innovation are imbued with a sense of solving old intractable problems and modernizing old, tired processes to produce better outcomes through better and smarter means -- and that's a tall order.
Innovation. Good. Machiavellian. Bad. Niccolò Machiavelli is both revered and reviled for The Prince, his posthumously published treatise on practical politics. Even given his infamous reputation, the 16th-century Italian political theorist got the core challenge of innovation exactly right:
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it."
The quote contains at least eight reasons not to accept the role of reformer — or change agent — or innovator. Yet people do, often enthusiastically. This magazine is named for a group of such people that began to come into its own in the late 1990s — chief information officers in public service — and who, coincidentally enough, share initials with a new cadre of chief innovation officers, who also have been charged with leading a change in the order of things. For the former group, the watchword was transformation. For the latter, it is innovation.
The two terms — transformation and innovation — are imbued with a sense of solving old intractable problems and modernizing old, tired processes to produce better outcomes through better and smarter means. It's a tall order. Clayton Christensen, whose seminal 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma, details the reasons why disruptive innovation is incredibly hard. For his part, Scott Berkun explodes The Myths of Innovation (2007) by documenting the many times things have gone terribly wrong in the name of innovation — along with extracting the lessons from the successful translation of a good idea into a real innovation.
A third book out just this year, Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage, completes a trilogy on innovation by underscoring how high the stakes are and where our relative strengths and weaknesses are. Rob Atkinson, who wrote the book with Stephen Ezell, is president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, an independent, nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
Atkinson's roots are in state government, and he's still a keen observer of the challenges and opportunities for states and localities in securing a place in the innovation economy. He credits them with having a street-level understanding of the need to grow and be more competitive, an innate sense that's been bolstered over the years by an increasingly sophisticated ability to analyze where they are on the global competitive landscape.
We talked recently about the themes of his new book and the appointment of chief innovation officers. "Fundamentally I don't think it means as much as people think it means," said Atkinson. "When they say innovation, they don't mean systemic innovation."
To confront the systemic challenges, Atkinson thinks both varieties of CIOs should have a more expansive span of control over enterprise operations and management. Concentration of power comes with its own risks, but the level of authority must be proportionate to the magnitude of the challenges, including taking on entrenched interests and bureaucratic thinking.
Atkinson has a short list of systemic innovations that matter: Focus state and local incentives and investment on building a platform for competitive growth — worker training, new equipment, and R&D in science and technology to the exclusion of almost all others; bite the bullet and raise revenue to pay for public investments; and coalesce around a single state and local voice to lobby the federal government for a true national growth and innovation agenda.
And innovation still inspires big dreams. "I would love to find one county that says, 'You know, we're going to blow everything up. We're going to start over. We're going to do bold, radical things,'" said Atkinson. "Let's see what happens if you free an agency from the accretion of lame rules. I'm waiting for somebody to go all in on that."
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A-Z April Challenge, the lovely folk at Gould Genealogy devised another challenge - Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge. Each week, we work through the letters of the alphabet sharing perhaps an elusive ancestor, a favourite or particular ancestor, or perhaps a heirloom.
B is for Budd
As I trawled through the Parish Records seeking and building the family tree from my Great Grandmother and beyond I came across the connection to the surname of BUDD. I had quickly established that my Great Great Grandmother Caroline Ellis was the daughter of George Ellis and his wife Prudence Budd.
This was quite early on in my research, so around the late 1980s. I turned up to my Great Aunt's for our fortnightly catch up. My Great Aunt was by this time in a wheelchair, with very limited sight, but still had the memory of an elephant and a razor sharp mind. As was our custom I was directed to make the tea, using the best cups and saucers and cut some cake. As I type this I can hear her in my mind, telling me to hurry up and had I bought my notebook?
Tray filled and carried into her lounge, I would poor the tea and make sure Aunt to hold her plate of cake, usually a Maderia. I would say that I had my note book and off she would go. Her mind cast back to a generation or two prior and I would see that I was to her no longer in the room, she was back to a young girl again and as she remembered past times I would furiously write the details down.
I recall, sitting the tray down and instead of staying I had my notebook I said I had located the marriage of Caroline's parents. Before I had chance to say anything more, Aunt said, oh yes, Carrie's mother was Prudence Budd you know. My big hype of information had vanished in a flash!
Prudence Budd had been born in Puttenham in 1817 to Richard Budd and Sarah Kemp. Prudence married in 1834 in Puttenham to George Ellis. Together they raised 8 children before Prudence died in 1855, 45 years before my Aunt was born.
It is only with looking back now, as I realise that my Great Aunt herself died nearly 20 years ago that I find myself realising that Aunt knew of her Great Grandmother through a living memory presumably shared through Caroline. The Budd's were a well documented family. I can trace the family back to 1724 in the village of Puttenham before the trail turns cooler.
The Budd's were potentially from neighbouring village of Shackleford and I have managed to trace a Henry Budd referenced in the parish. I can not say with 100% certainty that Henry came from Shackleford, but can say with probability that he did. More research is needed.
In my mind I can be in my Aunt's lounge and asking her the question of do you know where the Budd's came from?, and I think that I an possibly hear her faint response.....
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Lottery operators still looking for last year's winners
According to the Mainichi Shimbun, as of May 13, the holders of seven winning ¥100 million lottery tickets that were sold last year for the Dream Jumbo Takarakuji have yet to claim their prizes, and if they don't claim them by June 17 the tickets will become void. The media is cooperating by actually printing the names of the locations where the seven tickets were purchased in an effort to jog the memories of people who may have bought them but for reasons unknown have forgotten all about it. Being a responsible social medium, we here reprint these locations in the unlikely event that one or more of our readers happens to belong to this select group: The Koriyama branch of Mizuho Bank in Fukushima Prefecture; the TFC Kita Asaka TK Shop in Saitama City; the Nishi Ginza Chance Center and the Yotsuya Dream Center in Tokyo; the Hiratsuka branch of Mizuho Bank and the Yokohama Porta Chance Center in Kanagawa Prefecture; and the Tenmonkan Chance Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. To check the details and the winning numbers (in Japanese only), go here. The site also includes information about unclaimed prizes from more recent lotteries.
This is not, apparently, an unusual development. Since 2009, ¥20.1 billion worth of winning lottery tickets have become void because their holders did not redeem them by the deadline, which is one calendar year after the winning numbers are selected by computer. Included in this loot are 25 tickets that were worth at least ¥100 million. Since Takarakuji lotteries do not carry over, the money becomes the property of whichever local government presides over the place where the winning ticket was sold, so it's not as if the money becames a complete waste. The free media publicity may have another purpose. Sales of Takarakuji have been dropping steadily for the last few years and the operators want to keep awareness of the lottery alive. In fact, the failure of some lottery buyers to check their tickets for winning numbers could be considered a symptom of the game's loss of cultural topicality. As with the squirrel that works hard to hoard nuts for the winter and then forgets where it hid them, all the excitement is in the acquisition.


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Regular Ars readers will remember how Nintendo's bafflingly obtuse DRM system forced me to pay $60 to move $400 worth of previously purchased Wii Virtual Console games to my new Wii U. Apparently I should have held out longer, because at least one user is reporting Nintendo eventually accommodated him more when fixing a similar issue.
Last month, Ryan, one host of the Nintendo Fun Club Podcast, chronicled his experience with Error Code 200101, a recurring issue preventing him from transferring $570 worth of Virtual Console purchases from the Wii to the Wii U. Three calls to Nintendo customer support throughout the course of a week seemed to be getting him no closer to having his problem fixed. The whole scenario had Ryan running up against the same $85 Wii "repair" wall I encountered.
Then something surprising happened. As Ryan notes in a follow-up post, his fourth call to Nintendo support left him with a $620 account credit in the Wii Shop Channel—including a $50 bonus for "the inconvenience." Nintendo could apparently also remotely delete the licenses for the games purchased on his Wii system, allowing him to easily repurchase the games he lost. This was especially interesting to me, because the Nintendo customer service rep I talked to told me in no uncertain terms such license deletion was impossible.
It might seem exceedingly generous of Nintendo to spend $620 to keep a disgruntled customer happy, but when you think about it, that's not really money out of the company's pocket. Nintendo had already received the money for those purchases when Ryan made them on the Wii, and it doesn't really cost Nintendo anything to create another digital copy of the games Ryan will be downloading. At worst, the $50 "bonus" could be seen as a cut out of the money Ryan might have spent on future Virtual Console content. That's it.
In any case, this kind of replacement shouldn't require haranguing Nintendo customer support with multiple calls. This should be the default position once Nintendo confirms technical issues hold previous purchases hostage. Unfortunately, we are still hearing reports of other Wii U owners being forced to pay for repairs in order to move their games over.
Nintendo has yet to respond to numerous requests for comment from Ars about its Virtual Console DRM scheme and issues with transferring games between systems.


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During the rule of Solon the Lawgiver, when the
Of the first long narrow stoa on the southeastern corner of the site, just a few vestiges remained because of the many changes the building underwent during the years after it was first built. Initially, the Stoa was on two levels along the Panathenaic Way, in order to compensate for the natural slope of the ground. It had eleven spaces for shops and a row of columns with Ionic capitals. It must have been a very busy spot, as shown by the figures of Herms, animals, and sundials carved on the first of the columns. The layabouts of antiquity also carved youthful profiles, some with lovely classical features and others created with the intent to ridicule.
The colonnade must have extended in front of the library beside it, of which nothing remains, because it was totally destroyed during the Herulian raid, but also because the wall put up afterward was built on top of the structures on this side of the Agora. Evidence of the inhabitants' anxiety after the sack of the city are the pieces of columns lying like wounded giants, in the hurriedly built wall.
This was the 3rd century AD, when the Roman Empire was confronting the threat of fierce Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Vandals and others, who had set out in the north, followed the river roads of eastern Europe and joined together with the nomadic tribes of the Caucasus. From there they spilled over into the Roman possessions around the Black Sea and Asia Minor. The Goths, together with their cousins, the Herulians, built a powerful fleet and sailed down into the Aegean sowing devastation. They captured Lemnos and Skyros, and destroyed Corinth and Argos while other cities were desperately and vainly building fortifications. In the sack of
Immediately afterward, they built a wall using rubble from the ruined buildings. The perimeter of this wall greatly reduced the area which the Athenians would have to protect in any future attack. The fortifications started under the Propylaea, from the position of the present Beule gate, descended to the east side of the Panathenaic Way, crossed the southeastern stoa and the library, reached as far as the back wall of the Stoa of Attalos, turned east for some meters and then turned south again, to touch the Acropolis rock. The extent of this fortification shows that the number of residents had already – dropped sharply. The wall was 11-1/2 meters high and 3-1/2 m. wide, it had two faces and the space in between was filled with column drums, inscriptions, pedestals of votive statues and sculptures of all kinds. Traces of one fortress tower and parts of a water mill have been preserved. Three gates have been identified with certainty on the west side, along the Panathenaic Way. But the most impressive part of the remaining wall, with the built-in column drums and the pieces of marble from earlier buildings, is on the site where the library of Pantainos once stood.
This was the intellectual heart of
Attalos of Pergamum, who built this magnificent Stoa, came from an adventurous dynasty which, although its roots were of Asia Minor extraction, had become fully Hellenized. Its founder was a certain Philetairos from the Pontus in whom the Macedonian Lycimachos had such confidence as to entrust his treasury to him to be kept in the fortress at Pergamum. The person who gained most from the disputes between Lysimachos and Seleucos over the division of Alexander the Great's enormous empire was this flexible Philetairos who found himself owner of all the goods entrusted to him. He founded the Attalid state which, between 283 and 129 BC developed into a centre of commerce and letters, largely due to the use of a new writing material derived from animal skins. It was, of course, not so new; from very ancient times, highly significant writings were recorded on a piece of thin leather called a diphthera. The Persians took this word and adapted it to their own language as defter, from which comes a Greek word meaning notebook. When, under the rule of the Ptolemies, Egypt prohibited the export of papyrus, the kingdom of Pergamum perfected the technique of making diphthera, to give it a finer texture, whiter colour and the possibility of writing on both sides. It also acquired a new name, pergamini or parchment.
The kings of Pergamum were great lovers of beauty. They adorned their capital with wonderful monuments, and superb sculptures. The "Dying Gaul" in the Capitol Museum in Rome, but above all the Altar of Pergamum in the Berlin Museum, bear witness to the high artistic standards of the period. The library of Pergamum, which was said to contain some 20,000 volumes, later was given by Mark Antony to the lovely Cleopatra to enrich the library at Alexandria. Finally, Attalos III, the last of his line, bequeathed this wealthy kingdom to the people of Rome by virtue of a controversial will, thus consolidating the Roman presence in Asia.
Two of the most significant scions of the Attalids, who alternated their rule of Pergamum, had studied in
To construct the enormous base, or crepidoma, on which the stoa rested, the remains of an older peristyle which may have belonged to one of the 5th century courthouses, had to be covered. The Stoa was built in two tiers; it was about 117 metres long and 20 m. wide. Its facade, which faced west. was adorned by 45 Doric columns, unfluted at the bottom, as was the custom in the Hellenistic years, while in the interior, covered area there were 22 columns supporting a roof, all of which were unfluted with Ionic capitals. The facade of the upper floor also had 45 little Ionic columns which were joined together with decorated marble slabs: parapets to protect the people. There was an inner colonnade on the upper floor, as well, corresponding to the one on the ground floor. On each of the two levels, there were 22 square rooms suitable for use as shops. Initially the stairs leading up to the second level were outside, on the two narrow sides of the Stoa, as we can see traces of them on the northern edge of the ground floor roofed area, where the vestiges of a large marble fountain were also found. The outer, southern stairway was replaced by an interior one when the library of Pantainos was built to create more space between the two buildings. It has been restored and is used today. Later, a road passed over the south side of the Stoa of Attalos leading to the
During the barbarian invasion, the Stoa was burned as seen from marks on the south inner wall. During the subsequent fortification, the solid structure built by Attalos was deemed suitable for a city wall. Then the shop facades were built, rows of columns were torn down and fortification towers were added all along the former stoa, leaving the Agora outside the protected district. One part of the back wall was dug up in the 19th century, and after the regular excavations in 1953, the Stoa of Attalos was fully restored by the American School of Classical Studies. Today it houses a museum on its ground floor, and in the roofed outdoor area there are statues, votive sculptures, inscriptions and stelae which bring to life many details of the past life of the City.
In front of the outer colonnade of the Stoa of Attalos, in the middle of the facade, a large square base was erected for a monument depicting the king of Pergamum in a chariot. Some years after the Stoa was built, a bema (raised platform) was also put up, from which orators and Roman generals could address the citizens of
From various sources in antiquity, we know that the open, triangular space in the Agora next to the Dromos, was the venue for rituals and presentations, before the theatre of Dionysus was built. There were ikria here, wooden platforms from which the spectators watched the action unfolding. A brief reference even exists to the fact that one could see by climbing up on the branches of a poplar tree growing nearby. Perhaps this previous usage, together with the existence of a playing area and a large open space, was the reason why Agrippa built the Odeion on this precise spot.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was Augustus' son-in-law and governor of the Eastern provinces of the Empire. Late in the 1st century BC, he offered the Athenians a magnificent building for performances or even for philosophical discussions, thus winning the coveted title of benefactor of the city together with an honorary monument at the entrance to the Acropolis. The design of the Odeion reflected the Roman taste for the grandiose; it utilised the natural incline of the ground in the best possible way, giving it plenty of space on the ground, with stoae, multiple levels and two entrances. The most impressive of these must have been in the south, right in front of the Middle Stoa.
Persons entering the Odeion from this side passed under two rows of Corinthian columns, then proceeded into the main hall with its very high ceiling projecting up above the building. From this point, one descended to the 1000-seat audience area, and from there to the semi-circular marble-tiled orchestra. Above the orchestra was the stage, behind which was the other, northern entrance with a small exterior gate.
The large dimensions of this hall must have been the reason why the roof collapsed a century after it was built. In the restoration which followed, a good many rows of benches were removed from the upper section, and the hall acquired perceptibly smaller dimensions. Now it had but one entrance, that of the north side, embellished with the statues of Giants and Tritons. After the barbarian raids, the building underwent another radical change of form, to house a gymnasium. Of its old facade, only four of the gigantic statues were kept, while behind it, a large flat area was levelled off to be used as a porticoed courtyard. Even farther back, rooms and more courtyards were built and equipped with bath facilities. The large number of these disparate areas can be explained by the custom of the ancients to have classrooms in their gymnasia. This custom provided the root for the modern Greek word gymnasio meaning secondary school.
Even though the Odeion was completely destroyed, the monumental 2nd century AD entrance remained, of which we can still see the bases and the statues of two proud representatives of the world of myth. One is a Giant with a snakish form and the other is a mature, strongly-built Triton with a fishtail instead of legs.
It has been ascertained that myths were generated at the dawn of human thought. Beginning with the superstitions of the early peoples up to the symbolism of the Platonists that expressed primitive totemism and interpreted metaphysical concerns, myth passed through various stages of evolution. But it always presupposed the distant past, because only then did events take on the dimension of hyperbole. A typical example was provided by the Romans whose own mythology was comparatively poor. In addition, they were practical and victorious army commanders and administrators who had no need of heroic models, nor were they generally renowned as being lovers of speech and poetry. But they adopted the Greek religion and liked to present mythological beings in their art.
Giants and Tritons were the remnants of Greek prehistory. The former were vanquished by the gods in a decisive battle for peace, because as children of the Earth – shown by their snakish tails – they represented natural phenomena such as storms, floods and disasters. One of these was Enceladus, who was buried under the island of Sicily and every time he moved, he created earthquakes. The Tritons were considered to be marine spirits and had a dual substance of both destruction and restitution; rather like a storm followed by calm. Although Triton appears as the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite in Greek mythology, he may very possibly be of foreign origin.
A gold Mycenean ring shows some creatures wearing a strange, scaly garment. There are Babylonian ring stones and Assyrian seal stones in the British Museum, depicting forms that are half human and half fish, while at Pasargadae in Persia, a gate has been found on the jamb of which there is a relief representation of such a dual-form being. Eusebius, a 4th century Christian chronicler, mentioned similar creatures who appeared, he said, during the years of the Babylonians. Eusebius found this information in the texts of Apollodoros, a 2nd century BC historian and philosopher who was interested in the genealogy of the gods before the Flood. Apollodoros' main source was a "Babylonian History" written in Greek in the 4th century by a priest named Berosos from Bithynia. Having access to the cuneiform texts of the Chaldeans, Berosus learned that in the very ancient times, an amphibian creature named Oannes had arisen from the sea. This strange being civilized humanity with its superior wisdom. Other Oannes also appeared from time to time, always bearers of abundance and knowledge. The Sumerians worshipped this figure as a god named Enki, while the Babylonians called the same divinity Ea, i.e. god of the waters, and believed that his palace was in the city of Eridu on the Persian Gulf. It is strange to consider the fact that in western Africa there is a tribe called the Dongons, who believe that knowledge about the movement of the stars was imparted to them by wise amphibian creatures. Then of course there is the Gorgon or mermaid of more recent Greek folklore. So it would appear that the Triton of the ancients is a timeless being, with distant alien ancestors as well as more recent local descendants.
In Pausanias' book Boeotica, there is a very interesting reference to Tanagra. The men of the region, he said, managed to catch a Triton by trickery and beheaded it because it was annoying their wives. The traveller described the headless body, which he claimed to have seen displayed in the city, and, in fact, described an amphibian, unpleasantly anthropomorphic being. The Triton of the Odeion was a beautified version of this mythic creature which has so captured the human imagination.
In front of the gigantic statues at the entrance to the Odeion there was a large temple of Ares. Today nothing of this building has been preserved other than its outline – distinguishable from the rest of the site because it is covered with gravel – a few slabs with relief shields, and some scattered parts of columns and capitals. Many of the latter bear the characteristic notches made by Roman masons, even though the rock was cut in the 5th century, showing once more that the temple had been initially built somewhere else, and was brought here bit by bit and rebuilt together with its later altar during Roman rule. The citizens of classical
Pausanias gives us only one fleeting mention of the temple of Ares, because, when he passed by the site, he was mainly interested in the statues in and around it. Some of these statues have been identified in the truncated sculptures found nearby and now exhibited in the Agora Museum. Others have been lost forever: such as the 6th century statues of the tyrannicides Harmodios and Aristogeiton. These statues were booty which Xerxes took to Persia where they remained until Alexander the Great regained them and sent them back to
This significant Altar had been built in about 520 BC on the northern edge of the Agora, the apex of the imaginary triangle which constitutes its area. Within a walled enclosure, it had become established as the place where the underprivileged, the persecuted and even badly treated slaves sought sanctuary. Perhaps this was why Pausanias wrote that he saw an Altar of Mercy: an obvious reference to sanctuary, which led -most archaeologists to conclude that these two names referred to the same altar. Of the structure itself there are no significant traces, because the train line passed right over it. This railroad line is for visitors the northernmost boundary of the Agora, even though there were in antiquity, important buildings on the other side, which have not yet been fully excavated and studied.


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I read an article in the latest issue of Money magazine over the weekend that made me frown.
"College aid: Don't take the bait," by Kim Clark, took a look at various life-insurance-as-college-funding techniques and found them to be, for the most part, lacking. And in many of the cases the article cited, life insurance and annuities didn't just fail to help the families involved, they also made their financial situations significantly worse.
Needless to say, the story didn't paint life agents in a positive light. Those featured in the article came off as unscrupulous fear-mongers looking for a quick buck. Some of them ended up being fined and/or jailed for selling inappropriate insurance products.
Villainous, evil people, right? Well, maybe. Maybe not.
In some ways, I kind of felt sorry for the agents involved. It sounded like many of them attended seminars that taught how to sell these policies and then they just followed that advice.
While it's easy to condemn the agents as moneygrubbers, it sounds to me like at least a few of them were simply under-educated and a bit misguided. Unfortunately, in a field where you're selling products that can make or break families financially, that's a dangerous combination.
We talk a lot on this site about the need to educate clients, but it's essential that agents educate themselves, as well. While life insurance can help with college funding in a few cases, it has to be considered as part of every family's larger financial picture and unique situation. Actually, that's true of life insurance in every case. Financial products aren't one-size-fits-all solutions, no matter what a seminar tries to tell you.
You're in a difficult spot as a life agent. You're a trusted advisor … who also makes a living on commissions. You have to educate clients about complex products … maybe with very little training yourself. It can be easy, especially in tough economic times like these, to believe an official-sounding marketing agency that offers the key to fast, simple, people-helping sales.
But, as with everything, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And learning that lesson might be the best education of all.
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Statement Regarding Voter Photo ID Law Injunction
Madison, WI – Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy issued a statement today regarding Dane County Circuit Court Judge David Flanagan's order to "cease immediately any effort to enforce or implement the photo identification requirements of 2011 Wisconsin Act 23, pending trial of this case and further order of the court."
"We will take steps to suspend enforcement and implementation of the photo ID provisions of Act 23. We will communicate with local election officials and the public about the impact of this order. No decision has been made regarding an appeal. We will consult with the Attorney General's office on this issue."
"Other key provisions of Act 23 remain in effect: the requirement for 28 consecutive days of residency to vote, the requirement for voters to sign the poll list, and the end of corroboration for voters who do not have proof of residence."
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|2012 03-06 temp inj decision.pdf
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Ellen Rothenberg's work can be conceptually characterized as the presentation of enigmatic proposals. Like small puzzles, these propositions act as points of departure, thought exercises on how a collective conversation might put pressure on historical and contemporary narratives. With "ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant" at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Rothenberg pairs an excavation of the Spertus archive with her personal documentation of Berlin's Tempohome Dorf, a temporary refugee camp made up of shipping containers. The resulting exhibition is austere and complex, and it highlights how narratives of immigration can be shaped, particularly in a contemporary moment that has proven hostile to the refugee situation.
These translations take shape in a variety of different ways. Enlarged select panels from an Anti-Defamation League-commissioned issue of "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp are pasted in on a wall in multiple iterations, which provokes questions in terms of how narratives are formed. What can a comic strip featuring broad caricatures of hillbillies preaching for tolerance teach us, and what does Rothenberg's selective rearranging of this message say about its effectiveness? In regard to Rothenberg's images of shipping containers meant to house diasporic human beings, how might the documentary format truly convey what it means to live in such a way? While certainly didactic, Rothenberg is never proscriptive, instead taking on something akin to Lorca's somnambulist poetry, giving impressions and atmospheres but keeping what's being communicated something of a mystery.
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CSS For WordPress Unofficial defines blogging as:
To me blogging is the passionate expression of a persons thoughts, ideas and creativity to list a few. A bloggers main objective is to entertain and stimulate other individuals minds through the process of writing. Blogging provides an outlet for a somewhat shy person like me to share my thoughts and become a member of a rapidly growing community of others who share that same passion, that desire, to inspire the minds and possibly brighten the days of thousands of people around the world. A blogger holds his or her fate between their fingers and the keyboard and yet everyday they continue to risk everything they've gained to satisfy their readers one article at a time. So that to me is what a true blogger is, a passionate selfless individual with a divine need to create something great for other people and all I can say is keep doing what your doing!
Kamigoroshi – Footsteps in the Mirror explains blogging as:
Blogging is a reflection in the mirror of what we want to show to the world. For the most part, blogging is about us. It is the mirror image of who we are and what we are. If you run a business with a product, your blog about it should be the reflection of your product and not yourself. Because of this, it's easy for a lot of us to go wrong when we mix doing business with being personal. Sometimes we forget about mirroring the image of our product and end up mirroring the image of our selves.
Blogging is a state of self. For people like me who keep our blogs for personal use, it is the moment in time when we thought the things we wrote down…Blogging is a marker for improvement. Every post is a frozen moment in time. While the past lies in the past and we should move on from it. It's marker to tell yourself how far you've gone from where you last posted. Where are you now from a year ago? Have you learnt anything from the moments that passed before? Have you grown older with your readers or have you grown up with them?
…I could go on and on about what blogging is all about, but the road that leads from it is something we learn everyday. Blogging can be a part of life, but by no means is life a part of blogging. It is the reflection of who we are in the worded mirror. It is a fragment of perspectives that define our individuality, uniqueness and paradoxically our similarities. At the end of it, blogging is about you.
What comes from it on the other hand is a road only you can choose.
Trying hard to really define blogging, Darren Rowse wrote Blogging is Like… which lists over 40 blog posts with their definition of blogging.
I've been doing this blogging thing since before it had a name. To me, it was a way to stay in touch, communicate, and provide helpful information. To others, it's a way of getting published without the rejection letters and other stones. Get a blog, be an instant publisher.
What is it like? A diary, never-ending press release, your personal op-ed page, a classroom, a forum…there are so many definitions to what a blog is like and what is it that defines a blog.
For me, a blog is a communications tool. What you do with it from there is up to you.
Why is it that we've been doing this blogging thing for a while and people still have so many problems defining what we are doing?
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It is always an honour to be recognized by one's peers!
Many thanks to LexFlNatural for nominating Shakara Natural Tips for the Versatile Blogger Award. Wow!!! What a surprise. I am truly humbled and view this as an honour to be recommended by such an admirable blogger.
The RULES are as follows:
· Thank the Blogger who nominated you.
· Share seven random facts about yourself
· Nominate fifteen fellow bloggers that you recently discovered or follow regularly
· Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination by posting a comment on each of their blogs
· Add the Versatile Blogger Award to your post
Seven Random Facts about Stephanie:
Ø I was born in Germany
Ø I've lived in Africa, Europe and North America
Ø I LOVE chocolate, to be precise fair-trade chocolate, I literally eat a bar a day!
Ø Nothing can separate me from books, I love reading.
Ø TV shows I watch: Desperate Housewives (to bad it's concluded), The Walking Dead, The Nanny, Mrs. Marple and Murder she wrote! Lol
Ø My Favourite Film Genres are: Horror and Fantasy
Ø Music: I am a huge fan of Kelly Rowland and Destiny's Child!
And the Nominees Are…
Once again, thank you. I am completely flattered.
My continuous gratitude also goes to my #followers #new followers. Thank you for taking time to click the "like" button on this page, share my posts and comment. I LOVE YOU GUYS!


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Integrated Java development environments set high requirements on the computer equipment. These requirements are not always met in schools. If the students shall work at home with these development systems, only freely available systems come into question. There are hardly any systems left which actually can be used for teaching. This was the reason for me to develop the Java-Editor which is described below.
In the screenshot you see the main windows of the Java-Editor with the menu bar, toolbars and some registers with help for program development. The equipment is aimed in the needs of the school. Hence there is the register programme, like from which you can choose templates for console or GUI applications and for applets, and the register control structures with easy access to the Java control structures.
With class modeler you can create new classes and edit existing classes. It reads java source files and displays them as classes with attributes and methods. Changes in the class modeler are transferred accordingly to the java source files. The class modeler is an easy to use tool for modelling classes.
The order of attributes and methods in the structure tree can be changed by drag&drop.
You call the class modeler with the Symbol from your editor window or by doubleclick on a class in the uml window.
After modelling a class with the class modeler it's time to test your model. In the uml window you can, by opening the context menu of a class with the right mouse button, call a constructor for interactive creating of an object.
If you call subsequently the context menu of the created object you can edit the attributes and call the methods of the object.
The interactive creating of objects is oriented at the according BlueJ functionality. No main method is necessary, modeled classes can be tested interactively.
After testing your model in the uml window you can use it in a console or GUI program.
It's rather difficult to design graphical user interfaces if you use layout managers. Pupils really don't like that, because it's much easier to drag&drop gui-components to the desired position on a form. So the gui-designer of the Java-Editor uses absolute positioning with which you can design your layout rather quickly.
For creating a gui form you click in the program register on one of the six symbols: Frame, Dialog, Applet, JFrame, JDialog or JApplet.
To place a gui component you first click on the according symbol in the register AWT, Swing1 respectively Swing2 and then on the gui form. Afterwards you can then position the component and configure it with the object inspector. The source code is synchronized accordingly. For this purpose the sections
// start attributes // end attributes
// start methods // end methods
are used.
With the symbol of a source code window you open and arrange the gui form.
The gui form has a context menu for editing the components.
In other development environments the structure of the graphical user interface is presented as a tree. The Java-Editor saves the necessary extra window and shows the structure in the source code by according indenting of the appropriate variables.
Since version 12.0 the Java-Editor has an editor for structograms, with which you can create and edit structograms.
Modelling of control flow with structograms on a programminglanguage independent level plays an important role in informatic courses. Manual sketching of structograms on paper gives no presentable results. With the structogram editor you can easily, quickly and correctly create structograms.
With drag&drop you insert the left structogram elements in an existing structogram. Click on an empty structogram element to type in the desired text. For later editing you doubleclick on the text. You can cut and copy a selected structogram element to the clipboard. With the left paste-symbol you insert it per drag&drop. The green J creates as far as possible a java-program from the structogram. In the configuration you can edit the used texts.
The file menu provides the usual file operations like New, Open, Save and Print. All opened windows can be saved as a Java-Editor project (jep-file). If you open a Java-Editor project all those windows are reopend. Save all in saves all files in an other folder. You can export a java source file as html or rtf file which is then showing the syntax highlighting outside of the Java-Editor.
The editor supports the use of the windows clipboard and undo, redo, search and replace operations. Selected text can be copied in different formats. Search and replace supports multiple files and regular expressions. You can indent (Ctrl+Shift+I), unindent (Ctrl+Shift+U), comment or uncomment (Ctrl+K) selected text. For easy console output Ctrl+U inserts System.out.println() into the source code, Ctrl+Y deletes a line. You can set up to ten bookmarks with the mouse or the keyboard (Ctrl+Shift+#) and go to a bookmark (Ctrl+#). Every edit command has a shortcut and a symbol on the toolbar. The Editor is based on the SynEdit component
With the start menu and the corresponding symbols on the toolbar you can compile the source code in the active editor window. If you install the jikes compiler you can compile alternatively. Error messages are shown in the message window. Doubleclick on an error message to go to the error position in the source code. If you don't understand the error message it's a good idea to compile with the second compiler.
If you start a source file which has been changed it will automatically be saved, compiled and if error free it will be started.
Applets are shown in the appletviewer. The necessary HTML file will automatically be created. If you start the HTML file of an applet, the applet is shown in the browser.
Additionally you can call the debugger, disassembler and javadoc. With the Jar-File submenu you can create an executable jar file. The pack operation supports easy exchange of files between pupils and teacher. A packed jar file can easily be uploaded to a learning-platform or emailed to the teacher.
With the commands of the test menu you execute a program under the control of the debugger. If a breakpoint is set in a source file and you start the program the debugger will be called. After reaching a breakpoint the executing is interrupted. You can then execute the program stepwise. During debugging the message window shows you detailed information about attributes, parameters, local variables, watch expressions and the call stack.
To debug a GUI program you set a breakpoint in the desired method. Start the GUI program and wait until the GUI form is shown. Then click on the button, which causes the execution of the method with the breakpoint.
With the UML menu you can open UML windows and create, open and edit classes. Use the standard save and load symbols for saving and loading of uml class-diagrams and select the extension .uml. You can save an uml diagram as a picture. Often it's easier to copy the whole uml-diagram or the selected parts into the window clipboard. With open folder you make an uml diagram from all files in the selected folder. If you have already opened some java source files you use diagram form open files to create a class diagram.
An uml window has it's own toolbar with many operations to customize the design of the class diagram. Connections between classes are automatically detected, if there are appropriate attributes. Else you can connect classes manually. Select a class and then drag the mouse to the other class. After releasing the left mouse button you can choose the desired connection type.
By default the component menu is not shown. It's necessary for partially sighted or blind pupils which cannot use a mouse. The component menu allows the creation of gui forms without the gui designer.
The tools menu supports the Checkstyle plug-in which checks the style of a source file against a given coding standard and the Jalopy plug-in which formats a source file according to a coding standard. The compare tool compares two sources files, shows new, modified and deleted lines and allows to edit the modifications. If you install the subversion tool the tools menu gets an additional menu for subversion.
Besides the basic functions for arranging, opening and closing of windows you can show and hide some toolbars and open console, explorer and browser windows. In addition you can choose the font for the active window and open the configuration dialog.
The help menu enables the access to the java documentation, demos and tutorial. It's possible to integrate a java book in html form. You have a link to the Java-Editor homepage and the possibility to update the Java-Editor.
The Java-Editor is a Windows Application.
The Java-Editor operates under Linux with the wine extension. You find installation hints on the WineHQ page. The font Monospace ist recommendend. Some fonts don't really work in the editor.
The Java-Editor works on a Mac with CrossOver Office (Wine) as well as in a virtualized windows xp environment. On a 64-bit Mac it works under the virtualization software VMWare Fusion. You can use Java-Editor with the Oracle VM Virtual Box as well.
The Java-Editor has special support for visually impaired or blind persons. In the options menu you can set the font size for the component menu. The font size of the editor and other windows are set with the font symbol or the font menu.
If you can not use a mouse hide the toolbars and activate the option "Show component menu" in the options menu. With the component menu one can create GUI forms with help of menus.
Your are free to send bug reports and feature requests by e-mail.


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The shutdown of the Wells Street Bridge has the impact of a blocked artery, straining the circulation of much of the CTA rail system.
The lower tier of the 91-year-old bridge was closed to vehicles and pedestrians in November for repairs, and now it's CTA riders' turn.
Even though only Brown Line and Purple Line/Evanston Express trains normally travel across the Wells bridge connecting the Loop elevated structure to tracks north of the Chicago River, service on six of the eight CTA rail lines is being affected by bridge and track work continuing through the week, transit officials said.
Weekday rush hours are expected to pose the biggest challenge to the transit agency and its customers. Brown Line trains will operate much less frequently during most of the day — running every 10 to 12 minutes, officials said. And Evanston Express service is canceled until March 11. Purple Line local service will continue to operate between Howard Street in Chicago and Linden Avenue in Wilmette.
On weekends, Green, Pink and Orange Line trains will terminate their runs at certain stations in the downtown area, officials said. A weekend free shuttle bus will operate to link the Chicago/Franklin, Merchandise Mart, Clark/Lake, Washington/Wells and Clinton/Lake stations, officials said.
Riders are being told to plan for longer, slower commutes starting Monday on trains that will be more crowded than usual. The frequency of trains on the Brown Line is being reduced because of the need to operate more trains than usual on the Red Line tracks, including in the State Street subway, officials said.
"Experience has taught me to become a little nervous any time the CTA changes service," Rick Gordon, 41, a Brown Line rider who commutes between the Western station and the Washington/Wells stop in the Loop, said Friday morning after getting off the train downtown.
Gordon, an investment counselor, said he still plans to ride the Brown Line on Monday. But because he won't be able to ride across the Wells bridge to his normal stop, he will instead take advantage of the free CTA shuttle bus that will operate between the Chicago Avenue station and the Loop "L," stopping at the Merchandise Mart, the Clark/Lake and Washington/Wells stations.
During rush hours, two of every three southbound Brown Line trains will travel through the Red Line subway tunnel, making all stops to the Roosevelt station, officials said. They will then head north through the subway and up to Fullerton Avenue, then will continue making all Brown Line stops to the Kimball Avenue terminal, officials said.
One of every three Brown Line trains will remain on the regular Brown Line route south of Fullerton but will make the last stop at the Merchandise Mart station, near the north end of the Wells bridge.
Extra service will be provided on the Red Line, in part to accommodate heavier passenger loading caused by the suspension of all Purple Line service south of Howard through the week, officials said. Commuters who normally ride the Purple Line/Evanston Express service might consider budgeting up to an extra hour travel time if they will ride the all-stop Red Line to downtown.
Also, the transit agency will introduce free shuttle trains that circle the Loop and alternative bus service to provide options for the thousands of riders affected over the roughly nine-day bridge closing, which began Friday night.
CTA officials predicted that the commutes of many rail customers will be only several minutes to 15 minutes longer than normal travel times during the service interruptions. But in light of the unpredictability of CTA service even under normal cases, allowing extra time would help commuters ensure they arrive at their destinations on time.
"We urge customers to think about their options because this will not be a typical commute for most Brown and Purple Line commuters," CTA spokesman Brian Steele said, adding that delays are likely on other lines too because of expected ridership shifts.
With some commuters taking Monday off for the Casimir Pulaski Day holiday, the first full test of the CTA's alternative service plan will likely be on Tuesday.
The service disruptions will last until completion of the Wells bridge replacement project, upgrades to the busy downtown rail junction at Lake and Wells streets, and track replacement around the curves at Hubbard and Kinzie streets. Regular CTA service resumes in time for the morning rush period on March 11, following the first phase of bridge reconstruction, officials said.
A second closing of the Wells bridge will occur April 26 through May 5, when the $41.2 million overhaul project is scheduled to be completed, the Chicago Department of Transportation said.
The Wells bridge's trusses, steel framing, railings, bridge houses, major structural parts and mechanical and electrical parts are being replaced, but the original 1920s-era appearance of the double-deck bridge will be maintained, CDOT officials said.
Full details on the CTA service changes are available at transitchicago.com/wellsbridge.
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Information Technology 250
ITEC 250: Introduction to GIS
Cross-Listed: GEOS 250
Credit Hours: (4)
Course is designed to introduce students in geography as well as students from other disciplines working with the general concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Course will teach the theory and involve the practical use of GIS and geospatial data.
Detailed Description of Content of Course:
a. General Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
i. Definition of GIS in current and historical context
ii. Overview of professional/disciplines currently utilizing GIS technologies
iii. Major GIS application areas
b. The principal components of current GIS technologies
i. Hardware/software environments
ii. GIS data requirements (general: graphic and non-graphic)
iii. Output generation
c. GIS Data Elements
i. Graphic data (map features)
ii. Maps and projections (fundamental issues)
iii. Non-graphic data (attributes, tabular)
d. Vector and Raster data in GIS
e. Database management systems for GIS data (an overview)
f. GIS Data Manipulation and Analysis
i. Geographic extraction of selected data
ii. GIS query functions
iii. Adjacency and proximity analysis
g. Product Generation (hardcopy, .pdf, jpg)
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course :
Instructional strategies will include the following:
a.. Lectures on the theoretical aspects (traditional lectures, supported by computer graphics presentations and demonstrations where appropriate. Lectures will be available to students in class in outline form; full lectures will be made available through internet.
b. Demonstrations will include the –in-class demonstrations of a working PC-based GIS, as well as demonstrations on accessing digital databases on the Internet.
c. Computer-assisted instruction will involve students using a GIS and digital databases. Students will work as individuals as well as members of small groups (three to five students).
d. Laboratory exercises for students: Students will use instructions and data sets to work through various applications of GIS technologies, ranging form simple analysis to overlays, proximity analysis, use of Digital Elevation Models as data sources, etc.
Goals and Objectives of the Course:
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to demonstrate fundamental knowledge and/or practical skills in the realm of Geographic Information Systems. This will include knowledge of the theoretical foundation of GISs, GIS applications areas, GIS user need requirements, GIS data considerations (including graphic and non-graphic data requirements), GIS manipulations and data analysis, and product generation from GISs. The student will gain practical experiences in the use of GIS technologies as well as in the use of Internet resources as related to GIS technologies. An underlying objective is to provide the student with the opportunity to gain an appreciation of the truly multidisciplinary usage of GIS technologies. GIS is a technology utilized not only by geographers, but also by scientists in other disciplines, researchers in numerous fields, and particularly by professionals in various business applications.
Assessment Measures:
Student's knowledge on the theoretical aspects presented in lectures and reading assignments will be tested in two written examinations. Students' applied work will be assessed on the basis of the correct completion of the practical assignments, and, where applicable, on the quality of the output in form of maps, tables, and graphs.
Other Course Information:
Approval and subsequent reviews:
9/28/01 Proposed and Approved: Bernd H. Kuennecke
2/12/2010, reviewed, updated, and approved: Bernd H. Kuennecke


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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's third nuclear test on Tuesday and vowed to take action against Pyongyang for an act that all major world powers, including traditional ally China, have denounced.
"The members of the Security Council strongly condemned this test, which is a grave violation of Security Council resolutions," South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, whose country is president of the council this month, told reporters. He said the council would now consider "appropriate measures."
The non-binding statement was approved by all 15 council members.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that Washington and its allies want the Security Council to pass a resolution that would "augment the sanctions regime" already in place due to Pyongyang's 2006 and 2009 atomic tests.
The council statement was agreed at an emergency closed-door session convened by South Korea. Diplomats say negotiations on new sanctions could take weeks since China is likely to resist tough new measures for fear that new sanctions could lead to further retaliation by the North Korean leadership.
Beijing, has supported all previous sanctions resolutions against Pyongyang but only after working hard to dilute proposed measures in negotiations on the texts. It has been concerned that tougher sanctions could further weaken the North's economy and prompt refugees to flood into China.
The United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - the five permanent members of the 15-nation council - all condemned Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, which an international nuclear test monitoring agency in Vienna said was roughly twice as large as that of North Korea's 2009 nuclear test.
U.S. President Barack Obama said "the danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants further swift and credible action by the international community.
Obama will give his annual State of the Union address later on Tuesday. Several diplomats said it was possible that was why North Korea chose this day to detonate an atomic device, since Pyongyang traditionally makes such moves on important days in the U.S. calendar.
China's reaction was more muted. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Tuesday summoned the North Korean ambassador to China to protest against the North's new nuclear test. Yang said China was "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" to the test.
Several council diplomats said the United States and its allies would push for tough new sanctions rather than merely expanding measures imposed after Pyongyang's 2006 and 2009 atomic tests.
It was not clear what measures China would support. Diplomats said the Chinese delegation indicated behind closed doors that it could support a new council resolution on North Korea but did not specify what it would allow to be in it.
"Of course we'll go for sanctions," a council diplomat told Reuters. "As far as what kind of sanctions China could accept, this will be a Chinese-U.S. bilateral issue. Whatever they agree is what we'll be presented with in a resolution."
When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, 30, took power after the death of his father Kim Jong-il in December 2011, there were hopes he would bring reforms and end "military first" policies.
Instead, the North Korea, whose economy is smaller than it was 20 years ago and where a third of children are believed to be malnourished, appears to be trapped in a cycle of sanctions followed by further provocations.
China has long made clear its opposition to a new North Korean nuclear test and U.N. diplomats predicted that it would most likely approve new sanctions eventually, although it is not clear how harsh Beijing will permit the measures to be.
Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Security in Washington said "Chinese leaders cannot be happy with this test."
"In the world of diplomacy, little things do matter and conducting the test during the Chinese New Year will be viewed by Beijing as extremely insulting, and perhaps will lead them to take quiet punitive but temporary measures," wrote Cha, a former North Korea negotiator under President George W. Bush.
Chinese New Year began on Sunday.
"Whatever North Korea says, the nuclear test will gravely damage China's strategic and security interests," said Wang Dong, a professor at Peking University. "But the problem is that China's options, like the United States and others, are limited. North Korea is not our puppet. We cannot control its behavior."
In January the Security Council passed a resolution expanding U.N. sanctions against North Korea due to its December rocket launch and warned Pyongyang against further launches or nuclear tests. North Korea responded by threatening a new atomic detonation.
North Korea's previous nuclear tests prompted the Security Council to impose sanctions that include a ban on the import of nuclear and missile technology, an arms embargo and a ban on luxury goods imports.
There are 17 North Korean entities, including banks and trading companies, on the U.N. blacklist, and nine individuals - all linked to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. U.N. diplomats say many more entities and individuals could be subject to international asset freezes and travel bans.
In a statement, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said hoped the Security Council would take appropriate action.
"It is deplorable that Pyongyang defied the strong and unequivocal call from the international community to refrain from any further provocative measures," he said.
Ban later told the council authorities in Pyongyang "should not be under any illusion that nuclear weapons will enhance their security. To the contrary, as Pyongyang pursues nuclear weapons it will suffer only greater insecurity can isolation."
Additional reporting by Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Michelle Nichols and Paul Eckert in Washington; Editing by Bill Trott and David Brunnstrom
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.


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Watch the entire "Decay" movie on YouTube, or download it from DecayFilm.com
If the sets for "Decay," a super-low-budget flick about zombies at the Large Hadron Collider, look incredibly realistic — well, that shouldn't be surprising. The movie was filmed at the home of the LHC, Europe's CERN physics complex on the French-Swiss border, right under the noses of the authorities.
But don't worry: Everything's cool with CERN, even though they didn't know about the film in advance. The 75-minute movie is a hit, especially when you consider that it cost the grad students who made it just $3,500. And there's no danger that the Higgs boson has a "bio-entanglement" effect that turns underground workers into zombies, as portrayed in the movie.
The film was written and directed by Luke Thompson, a Ph.D. physics student at the University of Manchester who has been working on a project at CERN known as the LHeC experiment. The other masterminds on the "Decay" team included Manchester Ph.D students Hugo Day (stunt coordinator) and Clara Nellist (assistant director). The 20 cast members had no real film experience and worked with props that were scavenged or built by the crew, according to the Mancunion newspaper.
"Decay" was screened for the first time last month in Manchester, and this weekend it made its online debut as a free video on YouTube and the DecayFilm.com website. Thompson told me in an email that he and his fellow filmmakers have been "overjoyed at the reception thus far":
"Reactions have been hugely positive (especially considering it is, after all, the Internet!) and it's great to be getting so much coverage. The premiere in Manchester on the 29th of November was fantastic, and the audience really got into the film, which was great for all of us to experience.
"The tunnels in the film are indeed at CERN, but they're not the LHC tunnels. 'Our' tunnels are the basement-level maintenance tunnels linking many of the buildings at CERN just below ground. These mainly allow access to water pipes and so forth, but nothing critical for the running of CERN or the LHC. As such, they're not restricted access. On the other hand, access to anything important or dangerous, such as the LHC tunnels themselves, is tightly controlled. There are many kilometres of these maintenance tunnels, so of course the film doesn't show them all, but it does show a wide range of them. Many areas have their own unique 'feel,' and where possible we chose locations based on that, depending on what atmosphere we wanted to convey. We show some of the overground part of CERN as well, including (the outside of) the real ATLAS control room building, but of course most of the film is underground. We did try to give an 'overview' of what CERN is really like in the opening credits, before going crazy with the bad science :)
"The idea was entirely based on the location; some of us had been exploring CERN early in our Ph.D.s and, particularly in the case of the tunnels, thought it would make a great setting for a horror movie. We didn't think much more of it at the time, but a few months later it came up again, and we decided to actually make a zombie movie. We perhaps didn't realise how ambitious the project was at the time!
"As for the future: My Ph.D. will be done within about 6 months, after which I'll be doing a further six months' work on the LHeC project. Beyond that, I'm not sure. I've really enjoyed doing this film and have added filmmaking to my already too-long list of hobbies, so it's absolutely something I'll at least continue casually. That said, it's a tricky industry to make a living in, and as great as the reception has been, it's still an amateur film — so I'm not expecting any Hollywood projects to fall into my lap!"
CERN spokesman James Gillies told me that "Decay" wouldn't have been green-lighted if the students had asked, but now that it's out, there's no harm done. Gillies played it cool in his email:
"That film was made by a bunch of grad students in the kind of locations you describe [non-sensitive areas such as conference rooms and maintenance tunnels]. They did not ask permission until the whole film was in the can, at which point they asked us for an endorsement. We took the position that, even though we would not have granted permission had they asked before filming, it would not make any sense for CERN to try and block the film. The underground areas were the basements of the CERN main building complex and connecting tunnels on the Meyrin campus.
"Our criterion for accepting filming requests is based on the portrayal of scientists, not on the accuracy of the science. As you know, we worked with Sony Pictures on 'Angels and Demons.' Even though the science in that film was far from accurate, the scientists were well-portrayed. That's not the case for 'Decay.'
"What do folks think? For my part, it's the product of a bunch of grad students doing the kind of thing grad students do in their spare time.
"Can the Higgs field cause zombification? Well let's just say that the science in 'Decay' is at least as wide of the mark as the science in 'Angels and Demons' ..."
So, once again, LHC zombies are nothing to worry about. It's only a movie. That will surely come as a relief to the kid in this video.
More about physics at the movies:
- Reality check on 'Angels and Demons'
- How I created an algorithm for Spider-Man
- Physics in the realm of Hollywoodland!
- The physics behind the movie magic
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